On July 26 Lana Del Rey performed a small selection of songs, including some new ones, at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles, California to promote her latest album “Lust For Life.”

At the event, a fan asked Lana if she would ever consider releasing any of the singles that are “leaked or released” in a future album. She replied with “I feel like ‘Yosemite’ and the ‘Next Best American Record’, I don’t think they would start the new record but maybe would just release them as little folk singles or something. I was thinking about releasing a record of 25 of my favourite… leaked songs. But I don’t know if it’s a good idea.”

Whilst in London, Lana Del Rey stopped by the BBC Radio 1 studios to record an interview with Nick Grimshaw which premiered this morning at 7:50am BST on R1’s Breakfast Show.

You can read the first portion of the interview below, but be sure to head over to the BBC Radio 1 website to listen to Lana’s full interview. She appears around the 1h16m mark.

How was it returning to do a show here in London in the UK?
It was good. It was a lot for me. I made Born to Die in London, I spent years here. I did Glastonbury, I did my little set un Hull, but haven’t played in the middle of London for so long. I was kinda nervous but I love that venue. It was really fun and I saw so many faces I knew, kids I’ve seen over the last 5 years. I know them all, at least a good 25 of them.

You see them in the crowd whilst singing?
Yeah, we took the Eurostar from Paris to here and they were at the train station too. I knew who was coming.

Your fans are next level, really really dedicated. How is your interaction with your fans when you get off the train, off Eurostar. What is the one thing they always say to you?
They usually ask me about my hair. If I’ve changed the colour of it and they’ve got a lot of opinions about the height of it. So that’s usually the first thing.

What’s their preferred Lana Del Rey haircut?
High. Just really big.

It’s an iconic look. What do they want from you? Do they want a selfie, a video, an autograph? All of the above?
Yeah.

Do you have a go-to selfie face?
Smile [laughs]

Does the UK feel different to anywhere else because you are huge all over the world? Whats different about the UK?
Yeah, it’s so different. It’s definitely probably my number 2 place that feels like home. That’s why I don’t always like to play, because it’s so weird. It’s like playing in New York. It’s too real. That being said I do think I’m going to do a couple of UK shows coming up. Hopefully in Liverpool and Glasgow in the next month.

People went crazy when you announced the (London) show and didn’t tickets go in 12 seconds?
Yeah that’s what they said.So I imagine everyone in Liverpool and Glasgow right now are sat by a computer really nervously. You’ve got 23 second to do this guys, so good luck everybody.

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Do you ever check Twitter after a show?
Yes. I couldn’t really do it the other night ’cause I just needed a minute, but yes sometimes I just wanna see pictures from it.

What is on your rider? I imagine now you can have whatever you want, you can push it.
yeah I do. I ask for a kettle and water and ginger.

Is that all you want?
Yeah… do we have anything else? Pizza. 6 kittens. 1 white horse.

So just the normal stuff. I heard one rumour that you like you own toilet which is an amazing rumour.
Yeah, well usually the bathrooms have full mirrors in them so I like to dance.

Lana Del Rey talks to Swedish magazine, Bon: “I love my work and what I do”

Lana Del Rey was recently interviewed by Annah Björk for Swedish magazine Bon. In the interview, Lana talks about moving towards happiness, her new music and why feminism makes her feel uncomfortable. Enjoy the complete English translation below.

One late night it finally happens. The interview has been pushed back a few times, but now I’m sitting in my kitchen as an unknown number from Santa Monica calls me up.

Hi Annah, how are you? It’s Lana Del Rey. It’s morning in California.

Good morning Lana! I’m good, how are you? It’s nice talking to you again, I interviewed you in 2012.
Oh, wow. Really?

Yes, on the phone. You were in Paris.
Yeah, I remember now. In that hotel room… Yeah. That was a long time ago.

What has happened since we last spoke?
Everything has just been very fantastic. When you’ve only released one album you don’t know what to expect, so I think it’s very cool that I’ve also had the chance to do both Ultraviolence and Honeymoon.

What’s been the biggest change since then?
Well, I’ve moved to California. I didn’t live here then. But I really like it and I’ve really made myself comfortable in Los Angeles now.

You have a big smile on the cover of Lust for Life. Does that mean Lana Del Rey is… happy now?
(laughs) Well…

No more sad girl?
Let’s just say that it’s always in progress. But it’s true I have a lot of things in my life that makes me excited. I love my work and what I do. I also have a lot of time to go out and hang out with my friends. So, let’s say I’ve become more rooted.

Tell me more about the idea of smiling on the cover.
My little sister took the picture, just like she’s taken most of my pictures. We both agreed that we wanted to capture a new feeling — while alluding to the first album. We shot it in front of a white truck, and the picture has a spark in it that I like.

Following you through the music, and the long music videos and movies, is like entering a fantasy world. Would you say the smile is a part of the story you’re telling through Lana Del Rey? You know, from Born to Die to Lust for Life.
There’s no answer to that question yet. I don’t really know how the story of Lana Del Rey ends or where it’s heading. I’m really creating it as I go along. But I know that the first songs I wrote for the album were Love, Lust for Life, and another song that didn’t make the record. The intention was to bring a new playfulness into the music, to make something a little lighter; not just low, muddy, and bass. I wanted to move on.
I feel like I’m moving forward and exploring new things. A part of that meant inviting some friends to be on the record. I brought ASAP and The Weeknd over to my house to make some stuff together, and all of that was super cool. But I’ve also made some new friends, Sean Lennon and Stevie Nicks. The two of them really embodied the idea I had for the record. Sean Lennon is pure love, and Stevie Nicks is powerful music personified — she’s SO cool.

The Sean Lennon duet has a lot of John Lennon harmonies. Did you write that song before or after you asked Sean if he wanted to be on it?
Yes, it’s full of Lennon influences. You know the part where I sing ”Lay lady lay, on this side of paradise…”, I think that’s, like, a straight up Beatles-chord progression, but I’m not sure. Anyway, it was when I wrote that part of ”We could turn on the radio, play our favorite song, Lennon and Yoko, we could play all day long”, that I realized this song was meant for Sean.

Did you record it together?
No, he lives far up north in the country. I called Sean and he was super happy. He told me he was looking for a new project, and that his girlfriend liked my records. So that part was pretty easy. Tomorrow Never Came is the only song I wrote that I’m not sure where it came from, not the chords or anything. It just wrote itself.

What is the song Change about?
It’s about feeling like you have to change on many different levels. First of all, that something has to change in the world. In the first verse, I sing ”There’s something in the wind, I can feel it blowing in”, and in the second verse I sing that it’s ”on the wings of a song”. When I express my thoughts about change through lyrics and music, it can be about North Korea launching missiles or whatever. But it can also be directed inwards. So in the second verse I make it personal, when it’s about being stable, strong, and secure, and not looking for new discoveries when I don’t even have my shit together.

I feel like Change is very political, which is a new direction for you. What made you want to go in that direction?
Yeah, but those are the times we’re living in. Like I say in the song, ”There’s a change gonna come, I don’t know where or when, but whenever it’s here, we’ll be here for it”. I want to be involved in igniting a spark; a spark that’s the beginning of the end of what’s happening in our country right now. I want to be part of the conversation and make way. I don’t necessarily believe that I will be a catalyst for that change, but I’ll definitely be here when it comes — and be part of it.

When I ask her if the song God Bless America – And All The Beautiful Women In It is a feminist song, Lana Del Rey becomes noticeably uncomfortable. At first she’s quiet, and then she answers cautiously, as if she’s afraid she’s about to fall into a trap.

Yes… Yeah, probably. I guess so. I mean it’s not, not a feminist song. But I… (sighs) I always get uncomfortable when I’m asked that question, since I’m not exactly associated with it… THAT word. On my last albums I’ve been singing about my own experiences, and maybe they’ve not always been the most empowering for women… But I’m in a different place in my life now, especially considering the changes we’re going through here in America. And I’d be more than happy if I could be more open and sing about other women I know. Or to be supportive of women in general.
I don’t want to put my music in to genres; it’s just my music. But I’m not unhappy with calling it a feminist song, it’s just that I know what other people will say about that. You know, I can just see it; they’ll say ”Yeah yeah, I know what she’s trying to do, turning a new leaf and so on”. But I think feminism comes naturally if you only observe what’s happening around the world… It’s just common sense.

Lana Del Rey’s most anticipated new album ‘Lust For Life’ is out Friday, July 21st and features The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky, Playboi Carti, Sean Ono Lennon and Stevie Nicks.

You can download it on iTunes, listen on Spotify or buy it on CD via the Official Store, Amazon and HMV. Lana’s official store has also an exclusive CD box set, digital album, limited edition coke bottle clear double vinyl and a cassette tape